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Wordpress plugin for thumbnail optimization by click popularity
Hey, everybody. I know that it's impossible to run a thread here on GFY about WordPress plugins without the same two or three people (bots?) with commercial plugins for adult posting their often-irrelevant spam in the thread. But let's all try to just ignore that and proceed anyway.
Waaay back in the day of custom scripts for thumbnail TGPs, one of the common functionalities was the ability to track which thumbs were attracting the most clicks and display them preferentially, thus maximizing clicks for traffic trading purposes. It also had the mostly-accidental benefit of letting you see which kinds of thumbs worked best for your traffic, so you could make more like that.
There are a bunch of different purposes to which a person could put that tech to use in the Wordpress/blogging world. Banner sorting comes to mind, as does optimizing the featured images for posts that are going to be displayed in a tiled layout.
So I am trying to find plugins that use any version of the technology. (I'm pretty damned good at using plugins not quite how they were intended, but I'm way less good at coding from new in php. And I'm not currently in the market for any custom coding solutions; I'm looking for already-available tools to work with in doing my own custom site development.)
One obvious place to look would be in gallery plugins, which I mostly don't use. There are ten zillion of them out there, and trying to search them by features is really hard. But I would think that at least one of them must have a feature such that if there are fifty thumbs in a gallery, it counts the clicks and puts the most-clicked thumbs at the top of the gallery. I could pervert that functionality a dozen different ways. Does anybody know of a gallery plugin that has this feature?
There are a ton of "a/b testing" and "split testing" plugins out there. Lots of them are text-focused (no good here) or really cumbersome to set up alternatives; "a versus b" is not hard, but "which of these twenty performs best" is not possible unless you set up way too many 1v1 tests. Also most of these classs of plugins rely on presenting a different item to each successive site visitor; that's interesting, but not quite the same as presenting a bunch of stuff on the page and measuring which ones the dirty monkeys click most. Nonetheless, it's possible there's a testing plugin I haven't found that can do this; if so, I'd like to hear about it.
So, what say you? I'm basically only interested in plugins that are:
1) in the Wordpress.org plugins directory;
2) not specifically aimed at the adult industry; and
3) not just a front-end for somebody's off-site cloud service.
However, I don't really care what the original purpose of the plugin might be, if it incorporates any kind of thumbnail or banner sorting or optimizing by click popularity. Suggestions and recommendations please!
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